Vicky Aspinall

Victoria "Vicky" Aspinall is a British musician. She was the violinist in the English post-punk band The Raincoats from 1978 to 1984. In 1992 she and Dave Morgan founded the independent dance label Fresh Records (not the post-punk label of the same name) initially for releases of their own Lovestation project.[1]

Biography

Aspinall is a classically trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in the late 1970s.

She was a member of Jam Today, a part of the Women's Music Movement that developed in the late 1970s, playing a hybrid of jazz and rock similar in approach to groups like Henry Cow.[2]

She joined the Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted -strength not style" in a radical bookshop Compendium in Camden Town.[3] She has been credited, by Gina Birch of The Raincoats, with making the band more aware of feminist ideas.[4] Aspinall and Birch later formed the band Dorothy which was subsequently signed by Geoff Travis to Chrysalis Records.

References
  1. Sexton, Paul (7 August 1999). "U.K.'s Fresh Records Spins Out New Sounds". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
  2. "Blog Archive » Jam Today – Stroppy Cow Records 1981". Kill Your Pet Puppy. 12 January 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  3. Pelly, Jenn (5 October 2017). The Raincoats' the Raincoats. ISBN 9781501302428.
  4. The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. p.142, ISBN 978-0754657736


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